What Defines Us

 Good morning crafters!  This card was supposed to have been done as a demo during the Dec. shows but we never got that far.  At least I can give you a step by step here.  I started with a piece of decorative card from the Teresa Collins paper pack that is exclusive to Creative Expressions.  I covered it with a piece of sticky adhesive sheet and used the Filigree Bracket and Label die to cut an aperture in the centre of it.  I removed the backing paper and micro beaded it for texture.  Using the beautiful Filigree corner die set by Becca Feeken, I cut four of them out of milk coloured card and glued them to each corner.  I added foam mounting pieces to the back of it so it was ready for the next step.  I stamped the sentiment from the Justrite stamp set called What Defines Us set, also by Becca.  I cut it out with the same die used to create the aperture in the centre of the card.  I inked the piece with Tattered Rose before removing it from the die.  The sentiment set has this pretty rose and bud on it so I stamped them around the sentiment and lightly inked the area with Tattered Rose distress ink.  I stamped the roses again on a separate piece of milk card and coloured them with Distress markers (Tattered |Rose and Peeled Paint) and cut them out.  I mounted them with foam on to the original stamped images around the sentiment.  I adhered the background over the top of my sentiment, lining it up carefully to show through my aperture.  I tied a messy bow out of chalk seam binding and I made a special accent embellishment for the centre by cutting a small circle out of card and gluing eight 5mm cream flatback pearls to it.  I finished the card by adding pearle to the corners and a double milk coloured mat with a pierced inner mat layer.  Finished dimensions are 8" x 8" in size.